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...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Not so in 2023: reports of Becker’s words leaked into the internet, fuelling a stampede. In a few hours, some $42bn — or a quarter of SVB’s funds — departed....
...The book’s structure is in some ways reminiscent of Common Ground, J Anthony Lukas’ groundbreaking tale of the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s....
...She also refers to George Frederick Kunz, Tiffany’s first chief gemologist, as “the founding father of American luxury”....
...Julia Becker, chair of the supervisory board of the newspaper publishing group Funke Media, wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that they had “hit the heart of our industry”....
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...The rescue has parallels to the Panic of 1907, when J Pierpont Morgan locked a group of bank chieftains in his library until they could uncover a bank rescue plan after the failure of Knickerbocker Trust...
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...Seeger until it was purchased by the late industrial scion Frederick R. Koch (not to be confused with his Republican mega-donor younger brothers)....
...J, mainland China’s first homegrown jewellery artist and the first to appear on an international auction platform....
...While new Shanghai-based designer Feng J creates high-jewellery brooches for a younger clientele: her massive, undulating watercolour-hued ginkgo-leaf brooch is made light with a floating setting technique...
...“It was such a part of who she was,” says Becker. Harris seems poised to become a pearl influencer of another sort....
...Georgia Dawson was elected to lead Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in the UK, Barbara Becker took the helm of Gibson Dunn earlier this year and Rebecca Maslen-Stannage was named Herbert Smith Freehills’ new...
...This is not a new idea — the BBC Proms did something similar for Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos — but Fryer’s clean-cut Bach dovetails nicely with some imaginative responses from Samuel Becker, Julian Broughton...
...Staff there only keep about 25 cases in a modest room off the kitchen, says Frederick J Ryan, author of Wine and the White House....
...Companies that acknowledge they use liquidators include J Jill, the women’s clothing chain....
...Maybe we just don’t need J Crew any more....
...Frederick Studemann FT LITERARY EDITOR It is way too early for a proper account of Covid-19 and its consequences....
...efficiency obsession back to its roots in the work of economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo, but analyses the 20th century’s influential management thinkers such as time-and-motion obsessive Frederick...
...Nilanjana Roy and Ben Okri in tipping Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for inspiration; of the 2020 crop I would single out one yet to reach the bookstores: Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum’s impassioned J’...
...Like the J Sainsbury chief Mike Coupe, Mr Lewis said that Tesco had not increased its promotions compared with last year. “Our total participation [in promotions] was slightly lower.”...
...In March, Gavin de Becker, Mr Bezos’s security consultant, alleged that “our investigators” had concluded “with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’s phone, and gained private information...
...In a 1998 letter exhibited at the trial, an executive from Noramco wrote to Purdue Pharma — then known as Purdue Frederick — to say that “gaining access to raw materials on a worldwide basis . . . simply...
...It exhibited a 1998 letter where a Noramco executive wrote to Frederick Pharmaceuticals, which later became Purdue, explaining they could not obtain such a large supply from any other company....
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